ah, ah, russia accuse is nationalist ukrainian battalions of launching intensive missile attacks from civilian areas of park called while much of the city laden with so head on the program paper work litters. the floor but high tech areas are left on the contradictions and the claim that russian forces looted loves up the term, no home nuclear power we report exclusively from beside. so this is a research complex that focuses on studying radioactive materials. it is in the direct vicinity of the true noble power plant. and what's peculiar about it is that it has been maintained with the support of the european union screaming about it. austic has like this placed all over the equipment here at the same time as the

e. u claims to wanted deescalate tensions with russia. the block continues to sanction moscow relentlessly. it comes that protest wrapped in spain against the surgeon, the gas prices. but some countries urging against the imposing sanctions, which they say hurt europe more done, russian ah, from moscow to the world. this is our t pleasure that have your company today. my name's union o'neill. russia has said the 1st stage of its operation in ukraine has been achieved, which moscow states will lead to its overall goal. the liberation of don bass, the russian. mila tree said on friday that its troops had surrounded harcourt in the countries northeast. as you can see from this fudge, much of the country 2nd are just cities in ruins. raised buildings include schools

and residential houses are many vehicles, her crushed and burnt died, moscow. se nationalist ukrainian battalions have been continually firing missiles from civilian areas. these images show a train station in the ukranian civil evolve where hundreds of people are being arriving into after fleeing more youthful was home to some of the heaviest bottles at the war local tub. describe the situation there as a living. hell yet who had never seen such horror. there is no marine people or no hospital. there is no c appear, no galleries, nothing more you pro is like rouse me. no schools nursery is used. everything is destroyed. houses are destroyed, horner, i have escaped about the, i have my family, i have lost all my family. i have lost my house. i'm. i'm desperate.

meanwhile, ukrainian presidents loving marizza lensky, has accused rush of abusing its position in the international arena under threatening the use of nuclear weapons against key f, which could destroy not only ukraine, but jeopardize life. he stays on the entire planet. while this drone footage shows shattered buildings in the city of mario, but many of the heavily damaged or by bombs rockets shelling gun far, it's not being claimed. brushing forces have taken control over city hall, there after a month of intense fighting residents of the in buffalo city have spoken of the dire situation they have faced over the last few weeks. would you see you over the last 10 days here? we are exhausted with everything. even the show. it doesn't matter if we hear them or not. believe me, i no longer have any reaction to them for more than 2 o'clock in the morning. they not, they said that they were from the armed forces of ukraine and there would be a battle here which we ran out of the house and left. we hid in basement. we didn't

take food, we didn't take anything. you know, we have no bread, no water, no electricity, no heat, nothing. well, no, we're all coughing. the situation is bad. no help from anyone for a month. but you know, bread no water. we run through gunfire to get water. there were 6 courses on one road we were afraid to run their search. so we began to run along another road. there are soldiers, there is more or less come here to double the skin. floors littered with papers, but high tech labs left untouched. that's the condition of a key research lab, but the 2 noble nuclear power plant, amid media claims that he had been looted by russian forces. a lot of headlines about that with alex, do some report on those contradictions from the site itself. your chart easy course with other? well, this may be only a handful of places in the entire world as iconic, as the chernobyl power plant. we've come here for a series of reports,

published by some ukranian sauce, is that the rob wildfire raging in the area and that the russians aren't letting fire brigades in to let them tackle the blaze. well, hopefully you can see how much fires the rays, how much smoke there is exactly in the air spoiler, there's none. and you have to take my word for it. when i say it doesn't smell like anything is burning for kilometers and kilometers away from here. so we'll come to see how the power plant functions. right now when there's a russian military operation in ukraine. from the abandoned station we had to a nearby radiation monitoring lamp following reports, it was ransacked and looted. true enough were met with this scene. ah . but as we come through the debris, we start noticing

a strange pattern. while the office flows are littered with domestic junk, one of the lamps remain unscathed. so this is a research complex that focuses on studying radioactive materials. it is in the direct vicinity of the chernobyl power plant. and what's peculiar about it is that it has been maintained with the support of the european union, screaming about it as thick as like this placed all over the equipment here. but it is hard to see where the money exactly went, because you don't have to be an expert in brady, active science, to see that all this equipment here is very, very all you can see rust all over, you know, all over the draws basically all over the place, so again, this is clearly all of it, the legacy of the soviet era. the equipment is in a pristine state flasks and while the still neatly organized the marauder to nato has very deliberately steered away from them. and as we dive into a dog basement, we're in for

a worrying discovery. so here what we have is the only piece of more modern equipment that we have been able to find. in this lab. it has been provided by the european union, at least the funds for it. and apparently radioactive materials are still inside. i have this dose meter in my hand. it's very old. it's soviet. you can see it reads 00.32, and then very carefully. i move it towards this container. well, you can see for yourself how high the numbers go. and there are still a couple of containers inside. in nearby rooms, we uncover troves of equipment easily worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. if not millions. some of it could have been carried away by a single person, but wasn't plenty of offices. he and the storage facilities have been looted,

but it's interesting to see what has been left behind, for example, well toilet paper, soap. and if we move just little further down, this little passage, there are bandages sacks and boxes full of them. so the stuff and the items most needed on the front, on the front lines have been left behind. so whoever destroyed this place wasn't in for the money or supplied as more things don't add up. the place begins to look like a massive ard project coordinator and pretty well from that. we arrived after receiving information that the russian military had destroyed undiluted the research laboratory. we found a big mess in all the officers and rooms. but the most striking thing was that all the equipment used by the staff was still there and in good condition papers scattered across the floor suggests that employees made the mess while they were leaving the laboratory. most of the paperwork is still neatly in its place. last documents are dated february,

the 21st. all the expensive research equipment is in excellent condition and untouched. a video surveillance survey turned out to be blank. we detected increased radiation on the 1st floor and basement. oh, i think it was criminal carelessness to leave such facilities unattended. so this places server room, if i may call it that used to be right here, while it has been completely ransacked along with a c, c, t, v, security post or room, whatever you may call it, whoever created all this may. hm was very much interested. nobody finds out who exactly they were with due diligence. this lab can be set back up and running within days. everything with even the slightest use has been miraculously, or rather intentionally sped by the raiders. i'm because done of reporting from tra, noble artsy, another story to bring you to day russian sailors returned home as part of a prisoner exchange with ukraine. have been welcome back in moscow,

11 russian civilians various rested from a sunken ship near the black sea. ports of odessa were exchanged for 19 ukrainian sibley and ship crew members from the rescue at the vessel they were on. in addition, russia's human rights commissioner confirmed the exchange of 10 captured soldiers from each side. no has casanya. there are people on the ukrainian side who have ready to empathize with other people's pain and grief and do everything possible to return their loved ones to their home. there was at the core of our negotiations on prisoner exchanges. i sign understanding from the ukrainian side and procedural issues, heavily radiant doubt within the zone with the minister of defense and with the ministry of foreign affairs. to meet our treatment was good, hospitable. we were in the hospital and receive medical assistance with it. when we then lived in a church in the city of chair no more. so i would also like to say thanks to the

pastor of the church. he also did a lot to help us. once again, i would like to thank rushes, human rights commissioner and all the people who took part for doing everything possible for us. a sky high energy prices have plagued europe for the past number of months, but no sanctions against russia fueling further discontent by propelling a new rise with rising cost in spain for one leading to social unrest. in the tine of i, a monte near the border with portugal. large glides of smoke have blocked the highway . after a run, 40 fishermen set fire to a barricade made of tires to protest the spiraling cost of fuel. spain has been gripped by mos demonstration stage by various trade unions with protest by truck drivers joining the most the tension in an effort to address that problem, the government has offered truckers or rebates on one time cash payment that the group behind the protests has rejected the overture and thought to keep all protest

quote, indefinitely. the greek prime minister has already admitted that the huge, unprecedented sanctions against russia do bite while also hurting the european economy. referring to rising energy costs, he warned the a you should be careful not to let the measures damage europe more than they do in moscow. that's as traditionally neutral countries such as switzerland have also towed the e used line, avante russian sanctions. let's go live now to independent journalists, martin summers speaking to us from the u. k. martin evening to you. i top greek diplomat also recently said they globally coordinated sanctions against russia. rain, that regime change in moscow is that the eas, primary goal, do you think? well, i'm not sure they know what their primary goal is. regime change in moscow seems to be a very ambitious target you. some people seem to feel at least sanctions are

literally related to the ukraine war. and if there was a settlement of the war, some agreement, then maybe they could be lifted of us. you know, more in the at lunch says camp, if you like, she, this is a step change until about political elites here. and, you know, europe is just going to have completely disconnected from the russian economy. but that is actually an extremely difficult thing to do in today's interdependent world . and just and what they're some top european officials are now saying, for instance, germany, the e remain heavily dependent on russian gas imports. to what extent than is europe actually hurting itself with the sanction? i think so very large extent, interesting itself. i mean, it's not quite clear how the decision to price oil in rubles, will affect what's happening in macros saying we're not going to pay roubles in

that case. you won't get any oil. walrus fighting is going on, of course the oil pipe and the gas and pipelines that run through ukraine to be working at so as normal, which is a bizarre thing to say, but it's true. i think the european suckered in. ready to really boise anglo american political beliefs, this end of europe and across the atlantic. you mentioned that there a martin, russia requested that you're a pay for their gas purchases and rubel. does russia have much leverage with such a move? well, it's, it was, you know, it's a new kind of maneuver. i think what the russians go, lays is not in fact to counter sanction the countries that a sanctioning them. because understand that the russian of foreign ministry position is the sanctions, are illegal less for the put on or the u. n. so i think what the russians will do is by, for example, this decision to sell the oil and gas and rubles dice,

basically had taken leave it thing and not say, we're not going to supply you. you're just going to have to do it all terms. and i think that is the way that the russians are approaching this, the e you haven't thought through what they're doing at all. political leads have been stampeded down this road on the. ringback americans with the, you know, the british very much leading the charge, but i don't think they have a good strategy. i mean, ultimately, if we go to stress, you can re enroll things like rationing and a much more centrally directed economy. we call them what further pressure do you think the you in turn could exert on russia? well, as i don't think he can, ultimately, this is not so silly about all this, lots of good business to be done between russia and the rest of europe. and everybody presumed in the past that that would not with trump everything. but this is a kind of new on current and created to prevent europeans from participating in the global economy, which includes russia. and of course,

the other aspect of the sanctions is that lots of countries outside europe haven't agreed to sanction russia. but the americans binding the table and saying if you don't sanction russia, we're going to sanction you that alternately, if he section everybody that is not a rational policy, you will be a sanctioning yourself. and the real danger here of course is that just sort of a global economic crisis of enormous proportions, which would affect everybody. ready wherever they are, and i would suggest that's all very well for washington because it's not their citizens who's going to be directly affected, putting on the heat, filling up they their, their car with petrol and diesel. it's going to be european citizens. there seems to be that disconnect, doesn't it? warnings coming from washington, but actually people most affected are closer to russia. well actually from which in some countries in the you are a 100 percent dependent upon macedonia, i think central tendons on russian, russian energy. so what are they going to do? and the idea that, you know, liquid enough natural gas from the,

from the us make up the shortfall. what price i mean is absurd. it just makes a whole slaves of german industry, particularly uncompetitive. and some people in the us will welcome that because it's, you know, making america great again and all the rest of it. but of course, it will affect us as well in the going to be affected by this, but with less directly. and course, as a collapse in the new economy could easily set of a collapse in the, in the, in the us banking system. nobody seems to be taking care of the fact of the global economy was on bring to a major down to in any way before will this kicks in. martin, thanks very much for coming in the program this saturday. always appreciate your take independent journalists, martin summers in bristol city. thank you. ah. now, with the warning ukraine facing forcing were then excuse me, 3 and a half 1000000 people to flee. europe has been quick as you know, to throw open at stores. but that those stand in stark contrast to previous years

and conflicts when those from other countries were denied refuge. charlotte dubin ski takes us through when the wolf started in ukraine, millions picked up their belongings and fled with no sense of what would come next. they were many women and children. they packed into trains cause buses or just simply walked crossing the border into countries like poland, hungary, on slovakia, and they were greeted with open arms. sport senses were converted into temporary refugee senses. food and water was handed out on arrival. people open to that homes to the refugees, and governments have even offered to residency permits with working right since accessed health care and education, it has been a huge,

warm humanitarian hug. santa was even there to greet children, traumatized by the conflicts with coming here. i see he's face the war. this is a said bob to i won't give him the 510 minutes maybe who helped me to minutes smiling, thinking about the toys about the last note about what the situation was a fall cry from 2015, 2016. when refugees from syria attempted to make similar journeys, a with the demographics of refugees from syria was different. they were many more young

men. they were traveling ahead to pave an easy way for that remembers, but not for both the sense of caution and fear, especially as they came from a land where the culture and religion wasn't. well, you repeat in now tales have emerged by out how those lee crane are being built. it was not fitting the european stereotype of being held back. why i was trying to feel you when i got to request to come on, which is called books on, on the toes of women and children are allowed to and what degree board do we are pushing african women also between you are also pushing out in young we're not doing it well, we only if we not on our watch us, when we got closer to the water, there was a part you said, hope i did it. you can medically, school in the market disappointed us to why people under our side. then the

africans in gas on the middle is on the other side. so they told us, we have to wait till do i think we should wait before we are moving. we are left there for 3 days. stories have flooded, social media provoking the u. n. to condemn the ugly reality of racism. they reported disturbing incidents of discrimination, violence, and racism. these acts of discrimination are unacceptable. and we are using on many channels and resources to make sure that all people are protected equally, while others have been struck by the contrast of the aid that's been given to ukrainians compared to the situation, say on the belarus border just a few months ago. you had to deal with the hostility from the authorities harassing and intimidating. you telling you that actually it's not legal to help people who are crossing the border from belarus to poland. there was a state of emergency introduced no humanitarian organizations,

human rights organizations, or even journalists were allowed to enter in false questions have also been asked about the aid that sub available when it's for white people. and geo is working with refugees in cali, demanded that centers that have been opened up to help you crate news be open to others too. that demand was slapped back. the difference is that ukrainians are in a regularized situation. all of this is raised. so searching questions, why are alms open wide will ukrainians when the doors have been slammed, shut for others. so many times, the explanation it seems, is simple. it's really emotional for me because i see you repeating people was blue eyes and blond hair, big shields. this isn't a place with all due respect, you know, like iraq or afghanistan says a relatively civilized i'm relatively european. i have to choose those words

carefully to, to written casual appleton. to put it bluntly, these are not refugees from syria. these are refugees from ukraine. the more they are christians there while they are very similar just ah, after years of criticizing new nazi elements in ukrainian society, it appears that the b, b. c is not prepared to somewhat tolerate them. in one of friday's reports, the broadcaster, interviewer ukrainian soldier, clearly had a nazi symbol visible on his uniform the essay, the determination and a little help from western weaponry. i've gotten this far horrible motels as we have to move to the global level. so the patch on the soldier's arm is this symbol of nancy. germany's s. s. division known as debts head. the division was formed by concentration come guards at the start of the 2nd world war. it was known for the mass murder of war prisoners including $97.00 british soldiers captured in france

in 1940 no mention of any of that was made during the interview. while contrast out to the past in 2014 the b b. c reported on the rule of neo nazis and the coon ukraine. 2 years before that the channel made a documentary centered on racism and anti semitism and ukrainian as well as polish football stadiums that came out of the euro football championships held in the 2 countries. and showed neo nazi gestures being made at ukrainian stadiums, editor of the grace own max blumenthal scene. it's important to report on the issue of extremism in the conflict, especially as the west is supplying ukraine with weapons. as i just revealed at the gray zone, the bbc correspondent in fixer who is shaping that networks coverage of the events around mar, you poll, is actually a ukrainian nationalist. public relations operative who is involved in creating a viral app that is being called by the washington post, one of the you top ukrainian information weapons. and so i'm not surprised with the

white washing. it is unfortunate though that western audiences are deprived of important context on ukrainian politics. and what brought the situation to this point. ukraine is one of the only countries in the world that has an officially neo nazi unit with nazi inspired insignia incorporated into a national guard who civilian wing. the national corps has operated under the auspices officially of the interior ministry when arms are pouring in. and we are seeing british made light anti tank weapons in the hands of fascist right sector battalions. and the as of battalion, we should be concerned about what will happen with these weapons after the war, what they will do, and whether they will carry out their plans for a civil war or a wider conflict beyond ukraine. and that's why it's important, as well as the fact that they helped inspire this conflict and accelerate the push

to war with their actions in eastern ukraine around the don bast, consistently attacking civilians and violating agreements, united nations secretary general antonio terrace has pleaded for both sides to embark on a ceasefire in ukraine, calling russia's military operation, quote, an absurd on on winnable war. russia however, says its objectives have always been clear, with more on the background, to the conflict on russia stance. here's ortiz, rachel blevins. the chief of the united nations is calling on russia and what he referred to as the absurd war in ukraine. so with the current battle and during a 2nd month, let's take a look at how it got to this point. continuing the water, you could use morally acceptable, politically indefensible, and militarily nonsensical by any measure. but even the shoe, this calculation, if this time to stop the fight, think know, and give peace

a chance if this time to end these absurd walk. so what does he mean by that? well, let's start by looking at the accusation that russia's role in the war is politically indefensible. to the current conflict has been years in the making with the basis of it surrounding the dynamics. can they've gone republics, which declared independence following a u. s. supported government, coo and ukraine, back in 2014. the new ukranian government's response was to go to war with the republics. and even when the misc agreement of 2015 promised both the cease fire and t as the recognition of the regions autonomy, it was never fully implement it. in fact, when russian president vladimir putin announced the launch of a military offensive after moving to recognize the independence of the republics in the dog bass region, he noted that the conflict was pushed to this point because of ukraine's refusal to recognize the 2015 of court amuse skia the minsk agreements were killed long before

yesterday's recognition of the people's republic of dumbass and not by us, not by the representatives of these republics, but by the count authorities in kiev. there is the nino factor, while its members have branded it as a purely defensive alliance. it has more than doubled in size in the last 25 years as it expanded to the east. this cotton repeatedly assured russia wouldn't do so when for a secretary of state james baker saying there would not be even an inch of expansion to the east, back and $990.00. if we maintain a military presence in germany, which is part of nato, there will be no expansion of nato jurisdiction over nato forces even an inch to the east. while russia has repeatedly voice concerns. the expansion of nato to its own border would put moscow in a direct conflict with the entire alliance. it is also noted that nato membership for countries like ukraine would give it the ability to gain access to nuclear

weapons. to that former secretary of state, madeleine albright noted in 1997 as the u. s. has made no guarantee. i do not believe that a debate about nato should be reduced to a debate about russia. russia would also like us to make absolute commitments in the charter above the deployment of nuclear and conventional forces on the territory of new members. but we will not compromise on this issue. as for the claim that the current war is militarily nonsensical, or russia has made its demands clear since day one, that is goals are to demilitarized into d, not the by ukraine. but this week, us day departments spokesperson net price admitted that the u. s. has actively discouraging ukrainian government for making any concessions in his talks with russia, therefore, prolonging the war. the vitamin ministration is also fueling the complex signing off on his door, $13600000000.00 in funding for ukraine,

nearly half of which is aimed at supporting the ukrainian military. as the u. s. army dealers rate in the money russian officials have been quick to note just who is profiting off of the continuation of the complet. washington wants to keep reassuring the state of hostilities for as long as possible they count on continuing supplying weapons to ukraine. and finally, the claim that the war is morally unacceptable ignores the fact that the ukrainian military has been targeting the republics in the dark mass region for the last 8 years, during which china is estimated that more than 14000 people lost their life as a world wake up to a conflict that has been ongoing for years far right new, not the extreme engine ukraine continue to play a prominent role. this claim that they're using civilians is human. she'll. while the un cheap calls russell's role in the war.